Bob CollinsDavid Thatcher has died. He was an engineer and tail gunner on the seventh B-25 in the group. His son posted on Facebook that his father suffered a stroke on Sunday afternoon and died this morning. Read more →
MPR News Reflections and observations on the news
By today’s standards of what to do with dead people, dying is really bad for the environment. Chemicals used in embalming, for example, eventually leach into the earth. Cremation pollutes the air (about 500 pounds of carbon dioxide), and there’s the whole use of greenhouse gasses thing to consider.
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More than a year ago, Hanna Elshoff, 72 left Chatfield, Minn., and started pedaling a solar-powered trike around the country.
She’s still going, we learned today. Read more →
For the first time, a passenger on board Prince’s airplane is revealing what happened the night it needed to make an emergency landing in Moline, Ill., enroute to Minneapolis from Atlanta. Read more →
Michael Vaudreuil, 54, lost it all in the economic meltdown of 2008. His business collapsed and he was out of a job and would soon be out of money if he hadn’t taken a part-time gig as a janitor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts. Read more →
There are more important issues facing today’s politicians than the corruption surrounding purchasing tickets to concerts, sporting events, and theater events. But it would be nice if it could get a little attention from time to time.
Take your pick of issues: Convenience fees, handling fees, reselling policies, and — perhaps the worst of all — the scourge of scalpers.
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BuzzFeed says it started on Saturday when a 37-year-old Atlanta woman began posting the descriptions of street harassment. But it likely could’ve been any woman anywhere. Read more →
Monday’s Supreme Court decision basically allows evidence in an illegal search to be used against you. It hasn’t attracted much attention but that’s the nature of how constitutional rights disappear. Read more →
Sister Jean Thuerauf started a religious program on Tuesday afternoon for the kids in the neighborhood and baking cookies was one of the activities, Read more →
In Fitchburg, Wis., Mayor Steve Arnold has proposed that his city ‘privatize’ cul-de-sacs and let the people who live on them pay for their upkeep, Wisconsin State Journal says. Read more →
That’s gotta hurt, eh, Woodbury? The city was shut out of the top 10 for the honor of All-America City for 2016, after becoming a finalist by finishing in the top 20.
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The Minnesota Court of Appeals has found a key provision of a law designed to prevent using the internet to contact children about sex unconstitutional.
The court ruled in the case of Krista Ann Muccio. a cafeteria worker in Simley High and Inver Grove Heights Middle School, who was ‘sexting’ a 15-year old boy. Read more →
Chong Lee, of Wausau, Wis., lost his arm when he was just a boy when mortar shells rained down on his backyard in Laos in 1968.
After years in a refugee camp, his family migrated to Wisconsin, he learned to speak English, and for the last few years he’s worked as a janitor at Wausau East High School.
He has a prosthetic arm, but it’s too heavy and uncomfortable, so he works with just one arm. Read more →
The celestial calendar tells us today is the first day of summer but we really don’t need it to know that spring is giving way to a new season; we just have to keep an eye peeled for the complaints about applause as commencement ceremonies. Read more →